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    Your Coding Agent Inherits the Engineer · 4 min A coding agent inherits every credential the engineer holds and none of the judgment behind them. Close that gap with a runtime boundary, not a ban. security ai operations The Software You Didn't Buy Still Needs an Owner · 4 min Teams skip software purchases and build with agents. Each build is rational; the fleet is the risk. Agents compress upkeep but can't own it. strategy ai cost MCP Grew Up. Your Integration Debt Has a Clock. · 4 min The July MCP revision started a 12-month deprecation clock. Use it to find every agent-to-tool boundary, give each an owner, and test it. ai architecture platform-engineering Shadow AI Is an Operating Problem, Not a Ban · 4 min Banning AI tools removes your visibility, not the tools. Make the governed path the fast path and pull usage into the control plane. governance ai security The New Talent Stack: Product, Platform, and Applied AI Must Work as One System · 2 min AI organizations create leverage when product, platform, and applied AI are designed as one operating system instead of three kingdoms. teams ai platform-engineering Why Most AI Platform Teams Become the New Bottleneck Canon post — · 3 min AI platform teams become bottlenecks when they centralize decisions instead of capabilities. The warning signs, the metrics that expose it, and the fix. platform-engineering ai teams Why AI Agents Fail on Legacy Network Infrastructure · 7 min Many AI agent failures trace to the network: stale DNS, flat trust, retry storms, shallow queues. Zero-trust identity and per-step reliability fix them. agents infrastructure security Platform Engineering: DevOps Grew Up · 4 min Platform engineering is what happens when you realize 'you build it, you run it' does not scale past a handful of teams. platform-engineering devops developer-experience Platform Engineering Maturity: Why Teams Stall at Level 2 · 6 min Most platform teams build tools nobody asked for while developers wait in ticket queues. Lessons from platform teams at large companies. platform-engineering devops developer-experience Internal Developer Portals: Start With the Service Catalog · 5 min What I learned about internal developer portals at large telecom companies, and why the service catalog is the only part that matters on day one. platform-engineering developer-experience Platform Engineering vs DevOps: Mostly a Rebrand · 3 min The industry loves renaming things. Platform teams and internal developer platforms are DevOps done properly, and most companies still won't do it right. platform-engineering devops infrastructure Developer Experience: Internal Platforms vs Ad-Hoc Tooling · 6 min Purpose-built internal platforms versus the scripts and Makefiles teams grow themselves, and the team size and pain at which each one wins. developer-experience platform-engineering devops Internal Developer Platforms: Treat Them as Products · 3 min Most internal developer platforms fail because nobody treated them as a product. Lessons from building, and scrapping, platform tooling at three startups. platform-engineering devops developer-experience Building a Platform Team: Lessons from Our First Year · 5 min Standing up a small platform team at a fintech startup: tight scope, infrastructure run as a product, paved roads over mandates, and what I'd change. platform-engineering teams engineering
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